The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will award an honorary doctorate to Willem Dafoe

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Willem Dafoe will receive an honorary doctorate of arts from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee next 22 May. The actor of “Spiderman: No Way Home” and “At Eternity’s Gate” spoke at both graduation ceremonies that day , despite the fact that they will give him the title in the second.

Before retiring to join the independent experimental theater company Theater X, the actor from “The Northman ” was a student at this university in 1973 and 1974, where he participated in the productions of “A Moon for the Misbegotten” and “Phaedra”.

“I was young and very simple, but I was eager to train and act. I was totally involved and I spent most nights in an armchair in the theater because I was always working and studying and I didn’t want to go home”, commented the actor in the statement from the university about his time at the university, which he also described as a “very formative and positive time”

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Dafoe is a four-time Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Award nominee for his work on “Platoon”, “Shadow of the Vampire”, “The Florida Project” and “At Eternity’s Gate”.

The last project in which we can see Willem Dafoe is “The Northman”, his second collaboration with director Robert Eggers and where he shares the screen with Alexander Skarsgård, Anya Taylor Joy and Nicole Kidman.

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